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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. aggregates resources from all the VCs. A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation .

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Riverside defines proprietary as any sale less than ~3 buyers involved Kinderhook looks for the “broken” auctions that didn’t get the right attention of the PE community. Question : How do PE funds differentiate in the LOI phase?

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Lean vs Fat Startups: The Disrupt Debate

Venture Chronicles

This is the “tastes great, less filling&# debate that recurs on a regular basis in the venture capital and entrepreneur communities. I’d be willing to bet that more investors lose a great amount of aggregate capital here than at any other stage.

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“Customer First” Healthcare

abovethecrowd.com

Specifically, the “narrow network” typically aggregates those providers that are willing to accept lower prices for their services (theoretically you could have a “premium” narrow network, but they are typically used to create more affordable plans). Clearly the market is speaking. healthcare market. The timing can be tricky, however.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. They created a reason for their customers to aggregate on their site on a regular basis. Blog to your community. Think Mint.com.

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